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i think we'll start hearing squeals when as ray lahood predicts. we see those first lines at the airport, and it may even hurt, you know, those wealthy republicans who don't have private jets when air traffic control and the transportation security lines grow longer. you know, there are real people, and there are real cuts. you know, we have to go through march 1st, it looks like. by the way, we're not in the leap year. february only has 28 days, so it's even shorter than you might think to get to this moment, and it doesn't seem like either side can give in. >> i know. march 1st is next friday. a week from today. a lot will happen between now and then. let's talk about ted cruise because both of you have been writing about ted cruise. margaret, you also are writing about marco rubio and his foreign trip. ted cruise and his speech in ohio, chris, what are you reading into the early stages of this freshman? >> we suspected this strongly when ted cruise won a republican senate primary in texas in 2012, and he is a man in a hurry and someone who is no
i think we'll start hearing squeals when as ray lahood predicts. we see those first lines at the airport, and it may even hurt, you know, those wealthy republicans who don't have private jets when air traffic control and the transportation security lines grow longer. you know, there are real people, and there are real cuts. you know, we have to go through march 1st, it looks like. by the way, we're not in the leap year. february only has 28 days, so it's even shorter than you might think to get...
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we heard from a couple of cabinet secretaries for the white house today, arne duncan and ray lahood from the transportation department. he indicated air travel could be crippled by this. the white house is trying to make it very clear to americans across the country that this is going to affect all of you, they insist, in one form or another. the ripple effect is significant, the defense department obviously will be affected specifically, civilian workers, more than 700,000 of them will get basically a 20% kay-pay cut. they will have one day of the week where they'll be furloughed, stay home and not get paid. beyond that we heard from ray lahood pushing back against some accusations, mostly republicans insisting this is an overexaggeration by the white house. take a listen. >> this is not your father's faa. this is an faa that has to meet certain contract obligations with our controllers. we know that air travel is back at a par prior to 9/11, and we know that a lot of people are flying, and we're not making this up, david, and we're not making this up in order to put pain on the america
we heard from a couple of cabinet secretaries for the white house today, arne duncan and ray lahood from the transportation department. he indicated air travel could be crippled by this. the white house is trying to make it very clear to americans across the country that this is going to affect all of you, they insist, in one form or another. the ripple effect is significant, the defense department obviously will be affected specifically, civilian workers, more than 700,000 of them will get...
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. >>> transportation secretary ray lahood insists there is still time. our experts break it down and talk about the on going sequester blame game. plus, big news from afghanistan. president hamid karzai is requesting them pull out within two weeks. the reason plus how officials are responding. >>> stewart 33. >> and that fiery nascar crash leaving questions about the safety of speedways. a lot of news coming out of daytona today. we will take you there, as well. but we begin with our top political headlines. there could be a deal in the senate on guns. a bipartisan panel may reach agreement on tougher background checks for gun buyers. the washington post reports the talks led by two democrats and two republicans are expected to earn more gop spurt in the coming days. the nra's president said the president has done nothing serious to reduce the threat of gun violence. >> even in his state of the union address where he laid out his second term agenda, president obama made not one mention, not one word of the need to improve security for our schools. why? b
. >>> transportation secretary ray lahood insists there is still time. our experts break it down and talk about the on going sequester blame game. plus, big news from afghanistan. president hamid karzai is requesting them pull out within two weeks. the reason plus how officials are responding. >>> stewart 33. >> and that fiery nascar crash leaving questions about the safety of speedways. a lot of news coming out of daytona today. we will take you there, as well. but we...
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obama administration now predicting some difficult circumstances, transportation secretary ray lahood saying air traffic controllers could be cut causing flight delays and the secretary of education saying the nation's school children will suffer because of strained finances in the state. listen.... >> means a lot more children will not get the kinds of services they need as many as 40,000 teachers could lose their jobs. >> reporter: meantime, plenty of political finger pointing. >> the reason there is no agreement is because there is no leadership from the president on actually recognizing what the problem is. >> why is it that we can't come to the table and agree what cuts need to happen? that is what we should be doing. we shouldn't be passing the blame to the executive branch or saying this is obama's sequester >> reporter: both sides are pessimistic about changes to the agreement. >> heather: with five days left, you can understand why. what are the nation's governors saying? >> they had a meeting over the wined and some went on the sunday talk shows to talk about it. >> the real
obama administration now predicting some difficult circumstances, transportation secretary ray lahood saying air traffic controllers could be cut causing flight delays and the secretary of education saying the nation's school children will suffer because of strained finances in the state. listen.... >> means a lot more children will not get the kinds of services they need as many as 40,000 teachers could lose their jobs. >> reporter: meantime, plenty of political finger pointing....
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. >> that was transportation secretary ray lahood friday warning how the looming mandatory cuts could affect american people. the impact of sequestration could reach beyond to employees directly affected. let's bring in gene marks. he writes for small business for "the new york times" and forbes upon. thanks so much for being on. >> thanks so much. >> we heard of secretary ray lahood talk about air travel if the cuts are imposed. you could that trickle down to the economy? >> when you talk about small businesses and how they'll be impacted by the sequester cuts you have to kind of take into consideration that there are 20 to 30 million small businesses. so people that are doing work in certain areas, certain regions or certain industries that might be affected by a government cutback, those people will be affected, but if you're a small business owner and the accountant and the lawyer, even, a lot of them aren't going to be seeing a whole lot of effect of any cuts coming out. >> let's take a look at what the white house had to say about that. they say, quote, the automatic cuts trigge
. >> that was transportation secretary ray lahood friday warning how the looming mandatory cuts could affect american people. the impact of sequestration could reach beyond to employees directly affected. let's bring in gene marks. he writes for small business for "the new york times" and forbes upon. thanks so much for being on. >> thanks so much. >> we heard of secretary ray lahood talk about air travel if the cuts are imposed. you could that trickle down to the...